Romans 7:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

Romans 7:16 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 7:12
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Romans 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
1 Timothy 1:8
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Romans 7:22
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Psalms 119:127-128
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. …

Topics

Conscience Creation God Good and Evil Guilt Justification Man Neighbor

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-25)

Here is a description of the conflict between grace and corruption in the heart, between the law of God and the law of sin. And it is applicable two ways:—1. To the struggles that are in a convinced soul, but yet unregenerate, in the person of whom it is supposed, by some, that Paul speaks. 2. To the struggles that are in a renewed sanctified soul, but yet in a state of imperfection; as other appr…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

15-16. For, &c.--better, “For that which I do I know not”; that is, “In obeying the impulses of my carnal nature I act the slave of another will than my own as a renewed man?” for, &c.--rather, “for not what I would (wish, desire) that do I, but what I hate that I do.”